If the pen tool on there is scary to you - I understand it is to many :face_savouring_delicious_food: - you could use the pencil tool on there and simply draw out your vector shapes. I was wondering if you had a particular platform in mind to execute the finals.
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). I’m not crazy about the treatments I have seen because most end up not looking much like bichons.
I downloaded Vectornator since it's free. Drawing over my Procreate sketch is definitely do-able in Vectornator, but it looks like Affinity Designer is more robust and will allow me to automate thickness of lines. So I'm going to purchase that and hopefully the learning curve won't be too steep.
put my cancer in remission, but killed my fine-motor control 
. Quick gesture drawing and watercolor still work, but anything requiring slow controlled marks or pressure involves infinite do-overs. I never thought I would switch from paper/pencil to digital for drawing, but savings on tracing paper probably funded my iPad Pro, Pencil & Procreate 
(the un-do feature is priceless!)
@BichonBistro Intuition is exactly what you need for choosing fonts! Don’t worry so much about the science of it, it’s really about understanding how designs and styles make people feel. The Colibri logo I shared above has two different fonts, both chosen based on how I thought it would make the targeted audience feel. The main one is meant to create a sense of calm and welcoming feel, the secondary text is meant for trust, clarity, and readability. As an artist looking at the text, I am not a fan - as a vulnerable women looking for safety and support, it communicates something much different. It was also very similar to what a lot of government agencies were using at the time, so there is a slight reference to structure and authority. That’s about as scientific as I get! I think I felt it out, more than I thought it out, and that was always the approach I applied. For logos in general I also referenced what everyone else in the market was doing. You do not necessarily want to do the same thing, but you don’t want to stray so far that it’s not relatable.
Maybe your issue with your line work is the thickness as others suggested? For colour in the Bichons, I think all you need is some grey for shadow/depth, but if they want colour, possibly a pink tongue?